Graduate Education
Our news, opinion, and advice stories about graduate education in higher education can answer questions, like:
- Can students pay for graduate school?
- How are universities managing their graduate programs?
- What will graduate education look like in the future?
Graduate Education
Some signs point to smaller-than-usual cohorts and paused programs in the next academic year.
International
The new fee could bring added challenges to colleges’ hiring of international talent and to students seeking visas for post-graduate employment.
Advice
Our departments don’t have a problem with substance. We have a problem with storytelling.
Advice
Three ways to scout your future in higher ed amid unpredictable times.
Advice
Dos and don’ts of asking gen AI to help you explore career options and create job documents.
Financial aid
The tax package President Trump signed into law this month eliminates a financial-aid program that distributes billions of dollars to higher ed each year.
Advice
Two pillars of teaching — structure and evidence — are also the keys to writing more effectively for the public.
Dreams Deferred
Budding academics are delaying their graduate studies, continuing them abroad, or forgoing them entirely.
Access & Affordability
Shuttering the program, which had been expected to lend out about $19 billion annually over the next decade, could make graduate education very costly or unattainable, warns the Council of Graduate Schools.
Advice
Our graduate-school enterprise exists today in a state of anxiety and reactive tension. Here’s how we’re managing.

















